Nanoindenter/Nanomechanical Testing

Nanomechanical Testing

Technique:
SSW has a Hysitron TI-950 TriboIndenter. The instrument operates by indenting a diamond tip into and withdrawing it from the sample, from which a load-displacement curve is obtained. The unloading portion of the curve can be used to estimate the mechanical properties (reduced modulus and hardness) for materials such as metals, oxides and plastics.

Instrument:
Hysitron TI-950 TriboIndenter

Recent News

This recent research project was designed to investigate the influence of carbonate/bicarbonate, the key groundwater constituents likely to influence fuel dissolution inside a failed nuclear waste disposal container, on the reactivity of different uranium oxide (UO2) specimens. A cyclic voltammetric (CV) study of doped UO2 (Dy-UO2, Gd-UO2, 1.5 at% SIMFUEL and UO2.002) in 0.1 M...

The proposed Canadian container for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel consists of a dual wall comprised of an outer shell of copper over an inner low alloy steel vessel. Because of manufacturing and fabrication challenges for thick-walled containers, a thin-walled alternative design is being developed. Their fabrication involves coating copper directly on the surface...

SSW has recently upgraded the EDX system on our Hitachi S4500 field emission SEM to a Quartz PCI XOne SSD X-ray analyzer. The system consists of a PulseTor Maxim silicon drift detector (SDD) combined with a Quartz Imaging XOne image and EDX capture software. The state-of-the-art detector is electronically cooled and has excellent energy resolution...

A quick note for our clients. Surface Science Western will be closed over the holidays starting on Wednesday, December 24th and returning Monday, January 5th (8 am). Season’s greetings to all from the staff at SSW